{"id":103074,"date":"2021-06-27T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=103074"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:44:02","slug":"because-you-clapped-and-i-heard-it-hour-twenty-four-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/because-you-clapped-and-i-heard-it-hour-twenty-four-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"BECAUSE YOU CLAPPED AND I HEARD IT – Hour Twenty-Four (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

BECAUSE YOU CLAPPED AND I HEARD IT<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

longing for firework flares at the lost boys\u2019 campsite<\/span><\/p>\n

except I forgot all the directions before straight on til morning<\/span><\/p>\n

and it\u2019s not exactly something you can pop into google maps<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

so I\u2019m an adult outcast like robin in hook<\/span><\/p>\n

grown up in a world never made for a soul like mine<\/span><\/p>\n

ground up like molars on right-angle words<\/span><\/p>\n

like mortals on coils never-never ageless<\/span><\/p>\n

or morals on money or even only the <\/span>idea<\/span><\/i> of money\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

who herself is an idea, if not some modern deity<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

bitten back a thought better embittered<\/span><\/p>\n

since seeding we have our plants so closely scrutinized<\/span><\/p>\n

like knowing the time but not the quartz inside it, or like<\/span><\/p>\n

believing in 401K widget stonks but not the power to fly<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

so if in seeing you<\/span><\/p>\n

and making another world with our words, I seem free<\/span><\/p>\n

like talking to a passionate child about any mystic nightlight<\/span><\/p>\n

know that you are the star where I finally made a correct turn<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0know that here in new neverlandia I\u2019m home to my true self<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BECAUSE YOU CLAPPED AND I HEARD IT   longing for firework flares at the lost boys\u2019 campsite except I forgot all the directions before straight on til morning and it\u2019s not exactly something you can pop into google maps   so I\u2019m an adult outcast…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103082,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103074\/revisions\/103082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}